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RNA-Seq Analysis of Drosophila Clock and Non- Clock Neurons Reveals Neuron-Specific Cycling and Novel Candidate Neuropeptides RESEARCH ARTICLE RNA-seq analysis of Drosophila clock and non- clock neurons reveals neuron-specific cycling and novel candidate neuropeptides Katharine C. Abruzzi, Abigail Zadina¤a, Weifei Luo, Evelyn Wiyanto¤b, Reazur Rahman, Fang Guo, Orie Shafer¤c, Michael Rosbash* Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Center for Behavioral Genomics,Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States of America ¤a Current address: Columbia University, Graduate School in Neurobiology and Behavior, New York, New a1111111111 York, United States of America a1111111111 ¤b Current address: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, United States of America a1111111111 ¤c Current address: University of Michigan, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ann Arbor, MI, a1111111111 Massachusetts, United States of America a1111111111 * [email protected] Abstract OPEN ACCESS Locomotor activity rhythms are controlled by a network of ~150 circadian neurons within the Citation: Abruzzi KC, Zadina A, Luo W, Wiyanto E, adult Drosophila brain. They are subdivided based on their anatomical locations and proper- Rahman R, Guo F, et al. (2017) RNA-seq analysis ties. We profiled transcripts ªaround the clockº from three key groups of circadian neurons of Drosophila clock and non-clock neurons reveals with different functions. We also profiled a non-circadian outgroup, dopaminergic (TH) neu- neuron-specific cycling and novel candidate neuropeptides. PLoS Genet 13(2): e1006613. rons. They have cycling transcripts but fewer than clock neurons as well as low expression doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006613 and poor cycling of clock gene transcripts. This suggests that TH neurons do not have a Editor: Achim Kramer, ChariteÂÐ canonical circadian clock and that their gene expression cycling is driven by brain systemic UniversitaÈtsmedizin Berlin, GERMANY cues. The three circadian groups are surprisingly diverse in their cycling transcripts and Received: December 6, 2016 overall gene expression patterns, which include known and putative novel neuropeptides. Even the overall phase distributions of cycling transcripts are distinct, indicating that differ- Accepted: February 1, 2017 ent regulatory principles govern transcript oscillations. This surprising cell-type diversity par- Published: February 9, 2017 allels the functional heterogeneity of the different neurons. Copyright: © 2017 Abruzzi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original Author summary author and source are credited. Organisms ranging from bacteria to humans contain circadian clocks. They keep internal Data Availability Statement: All sequencing data time and also integrate environmental cues such as light to provide external time informa- (raw and processed) has been uploaded to Gene tion for entrainment. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, ~150 brain neurons contain Expression Omnibus. Accession # GSE77451. the circadian machinery and are critical for controlling behavior. Several subgroups of Funding: This work was supported by the Howard these clock neurons have been identified by their anatomical locations and specific func- Hughes Medical Institute. AZ was funded by a tions. Our work aims to profile these neurons and to characterize their molecular con- Computational Neuroscience Training Grant tents: what to they contain and how do they differ? To this end, we have purified 3 (CNTG) to Brandeis University (NIH grant number R90 DA033463). OS was funded by NIH (NINDS) important subgroups of clock neurons and identified their expressed genes at different grant R01NS077933 and the NSF (IOS) grant times of day. Some are expressed at all times, whereas others are ªcycling,º i.e., expressed 1354046. The funders had no role in study design, PLOS Genetics | DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006613 February 9, 2017 1 / 23 RNA-seq analysis of Drosophila clock and non-clock neurons data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. more strongly at a particular time of day like the morning. Interestingly, each circadian Competing interests: The authors have declared subgroup is quite different. The data provide hints about what functions each group of that no competing interests exist. neurons carries out and how they may work together to keep time. In addition, even a non-circadian group of neurons has cycling genes and has implications for the extent to which all cells have or do not have a functional circadian clock. Introduction Nearly all organisms possess a circadian clock, which allows for the adaptation and anticipation of the daily oscillations of day (light) and night (dark). The circadian clock of Drosophila mela- nogaster drives a 24-hour locomotor activity rhythm, which includes bouts of morning and evening activity. This rhythmic behavior is controlled by a molecular clock, which includes transcriptional negative feedback loops that are conserved from insects to mammals. Clock (CLK) and Cycle (CYC) form a heterodimeric transcription factor that functions as the central circadian transcriptional activator. CLK/CYC activates the expression of two transcription fac- tor genes, timeless (tim) and period (per) in the late morning. TIM and PER enter the nucleus in the early night, inhibit CLK/CYC driven transcription, and sequester CLK/CYC until morning. Once released, CLK/CYC start the cycle over again by activating tim and per. This negative feed- back leads to oscillating gene expression for per and tim as well as many other CLK/CYC con- trolled genes. Two other CLK/CYC transcriptional target genes, Vrille (vri) and par domain protein 1 (pdp1) encode transcription factors that form a second circadian feedback loop. The cyclical expression of many different genes provides temporal control of different behaviors or outputs of the clock; they include for example feeding and sleep (reviewed in [1], [2]). The molecular clock is expressed in ~150 clock neurons in the Drosophila brain, which function together to regulate many of these circadian behaviors. These neurons are classified based upon their anatomical location (reviewed in [3, 4]). There are dorsal neurons that are divided into three groups: DN1s, DN2s and DN3s. There are also lateral neurons (LNs), which can be subdivided into 4 groups. They include the lateral posterior neurons (LPN; 3 neurons), dorsal lateral neurons (LNds; 6 neurons), and two groups of ventral lateral neurons: the small ventral lateral neurons (s-LNvs; 5 neurons) and the large ventral lateral neurons (l-LNvs; 4 neurons). The LNs can also be subdivided based on expression of the neuropeptide, PDF (pig- ment dispersing factor). The PDF+ lateral neurons consist of all of the LNvs except the 5th small LNv. PDF- lateral neurons consist of all the LNds plus the 5th small LNv. The PDF+ LNvs are considered to be the major fly pacemaker neurons as they are sufficient to drive rhythmic locomotor behavior in the absence of light cues [5, 6]. Like in flies, an anatomically restricted region of the mammalian brain serves as the circadian central pacemaker. This is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a subregion of the hypothalamus that contains ~15,000 neurons (in mouse). The SCN has two main regions: the ventrolateral ªcore,º which expresses vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP); and the dorsolateral ªshell,º which expresses arginine vasopressin (AVP). Although the core and shell provide a simple ana- tomical framework, the SCN is complicated: different regions oscillate in different phases, express scores of different neuropeptides and project to unique target areas of the brain [7±9]. A key question in both systems is how brain circadian neurons work together to drive com- plex circadian behaviors. Due to the relative simplicity of the Drosophila system, much more is known about the fly circadian network. The PDF neurons, the l-LNvs and s-LNvs, are proba- bly part of the primary light-input pathway to the clock. They receive light information directly via the intracellular presence of the blue-light photoreceptor Cryptochrome (CRY) as well as PLOS Genetics | DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006613 February 9, 2017 2 / 23 RNA-seq analysis of Drosophila clock and non-clock neurons indirectly via photoreceptors of both the compound eyes and the H-B eyelets [10±13]. PDF release by the LNvs is critical for communicating time of day signals to the LNds and DN1s as well as to the non-circadian LK/LK-R neurons [14±16]. A subset of the LNds, the 3 Cry+ LNds well as the 5th small PDF- LNv, are important for controlling evening anticipatory behavior and are therefore referred to as evening cells [17± 19]. However, their role is not limited to driving evening activity as they can also modulate morning activity [20]. This is because silencing them leads to a strong decrease in both morn- ing and evening locomotor activity, and other experiments from our lab indicate that the LNds are general activity-promoting neurons [19]. The DN1s are intriguing. A recent study illustrates that the circadian clock controls daily changes in DN1 membrane excitability [21]. This cell-autonomous control is then modulated by effects from the circadian network. For example, PDF signaling from the LNvs to the DN1s is important for arousal in the morning [22±24]. The DN1s then release the neuropeptide, Dh31, to promote awakening at dawn [25]. Later in the day however, DN1s send inhibitory
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